The Filipino people must stand on their own in defending Philippine territory and sovereignty

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) condemns the governments
of the US and China for the continuing build-up of their military
forces in the South China Sea within the territorial waters and
exclusive economic zone of the Philippines. Increasing presence of
foreign military forces in these areas are in outright violation of
Philippine territorial integrity and sovereignty.

The CPP further condemns the security and defense officials of the US
and China governments for their saber-rattling and exchange of threats
to escalate armed confrontations over the past few days. The Filipino
people and the international community of peace-loving peoples must
denounce both China and the US for raising the war temperature by
drum-beating and expanding their military presence in the South China
Sea (also referred to as the West Philippine Sea).

The CPP calls on the Filipino people to stand on their own and oppose
both China and the US for their efforts to establish a foothold in
Philippine territorial waters and gain exclusive control of the
Philippine sea trade route in order to use this as economic and
political leverage in their increasing antagonisms.

The CPP calls on the Filipino people to stand against increasing
incursions by the Chinese military in Philippine territorial waters and
land formations in the South China Sea. China’s large-scale land
reclamation and construction of airstrips, docks and other military
facilities in the Spratly islands are in outright disregard of the
Philippine’s 200-mile exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and extended
continental shelf as stipulated by the UN Convention on the Law of the
Seas (UNCLOS).

The Filipino people must condemn the Chinese government for its
increased military naval presence in the area and its brash assertions
of exclusive rights. (Determination by historical data and standing
international laws including the UNCLOS belie such claims.) They must
also denounce the deployment of Chinese coast guard gunboats which have
made more and more aggressive transgressions into Philippine territorial
waters protecting big Chinese boats in Philippine fishing areas.

At the same time, the CPP and the Filipino people must condemn the US
government and military for deploying a growing number of troops,
warships, jetfighters, drones, surveillance planes, submarines, nuclear
weapons and other war materiél in the South China Sea and the rest of
the Asia-Pacific region. By deploying as much as 60% of its naval forces
and 50% of its army and air forces in Asia under the so-called pivot or
rebalancing, the US is raising the possibility of armed confrontation
and war in the region.

The CPP further condemns the US for using Philippine military camps,
civilian airports and naval facilities as a base for its sea
reconnaisance and overflights for surveillance, power-projection and
provocations in the South China Sea.

The CPP condemns the puppet Aquino regime for making use of the
conflicting claims in the South China Sea to surrender Philippine
sovereignty to the US by signing the Enhanced Defense Cooperation
Agreement (EDCA) which allows the US military to establish bases and
facilities in so-called Agreed Locations within Philippine military
camps.

It has also secured similar agreements or arrangements with
Australia, Singapore and other compliant states in order to use these
countries as military bases and staging areas for US military
operations.

Over the past few days, the US has been hyping-up China’s incursions
into the Philippine EEZ by “exposing” China’s land reclamations and
construction of military facilities and making provocations by flying a
P-8 Poseidon surveillance warplane near Chinese facilities to which
China responded with radio warnings.

The US has subsequently issued public statements declaring that they
will use their military might to deter any country or force from
curtailing supposed “freedom of navigation” in the South China Sea. The
US has set its biggest aircraft carrier, the USS Ronald Reagan, for sail
to the Pacific Sea, with much histrionics.

Clearly, the aim of the US-coordinated media drama is to sow
anti-China fear among the Filipino people and dupe them with the hoax of
“US-Philippine special relations” being spun by US public opinion
expert manipulators cum psy-war spinmasters and their counterparts in
the Philippines.

It is obvious that the media hype being whipped up by the US and the
puppet Aquino regime is being timed in anticipation of the Supreme Court
resolution of the petition filed against the EDCA over issues of
violations of the 1987 Philippine constitution prohibiting the
establishment of foreign military bases and facilities in the country.

Rabid pro-US apologists in the Aquino regime and big corporate media
have gone the lengths of making the claim that China would not have
dared establish its military presence had there been US military bases
in the Philippines.

The Filipino people must reject this completely unfounded propaganda
line. They must also repudiate the baseless claim of the Aquino puppet
regime that US military presence in the country is a deterrent to
Chinaese intrusions into the Philippine EEZ and territorial waters. On
the contrary, it is clear that the presence of US warships and military
forces in the Philippines and in the Pacific and South China Sea is a
magnet to Chinaese aggression.The Filipino people must also dispute the claims of the puppet Aquino
regime that the US will defend the Philippine’s territorial claims over
areas of the Spratly islands. Die-hard pro-US apologists cite US
President Obama’s 2014 rhetorical Manila speech claiming “iron clad”
commitment to their treaties. However, as recent as last week, US
Secretary of State John Kerry and top US officials who visited China
reiterated the US position of “not taking sides” on the South China Sea
disputes.

The Aquino regime and its pro-US officials are delusional in thinking
that the US is building-up its military presence in the South China Sea
in preparation for going to war to defend Philippine sovereignty. The
US government itself declared last February in its National Security
Strategy (NSS) that “the threshold for military action is higher when
our interests are not directly threatened”.

The US has repeatedly asserted that it is establishing its presence
in the South China Sea to ensure “freedom of navigation” which is
nothing more than ensuring the free flow of US commodities from the
Indian Ocean to the Pacific and into the vast markets of China and the
rest of Asia. (It is extremely hypocritical, in fact, for the US to
dress itself up as the defender of “freedom of navigation” as it has
been among the most zealous in imposing trade sanctions and economic
blockades against countries which have stood up against US dictates and
setting up protectionist barriers around its own economy.)When the US military engaged the Spanish colonial forces in a mock
battle at Manila Bay more than one hundred years ago, it was not for
“benevolence” or generosity for the Filipino people, rather to serve the
needs of the US capitalists who were in search of markets, cheap labor
and raw materials. In the event that the US will engage in direct
military action in the South China Sea, trust that it will not be in
defense of Philippine sovereignty, but rather in pursuit of US economic
and geo-political interests.

As an upstart imperialist power, China has become increasingly
aggressive in defending and expanding its national territory, its
markets and areas of investment and sources of oil and other resources.
It is rapidly building up its military capability, even though it has
yet to carry out any wars of aggression or occupation. It has, however,
used its military strength as leverage in international diplomatic
tussles in order to defend its interests and alliances.As the crisis of the world capitalist system protracts and worsens,
the US and China imperialist powers are becoming increasingly at odds
with each other. Both sides seek to establish exclusive control over the
South China Sea trade route with the aim of securing the flow of their
commodities, ensure the continued expansion of markets, source of cheap
raw materials and spheres of influence and investments, particularly in
the Asia-Pacific region.

A redivision of the world through war is inevitable. Even now, proxy
wars are breaking out in different parts of the world as the imperialist
powers seek to secure and control oil and gas reserves, oil pipelines
and trade routes, sources of rare earth, gold and other precious
minerals, markets and investment areas.

The US monopoly capitalists are exerting diplomatic and
politico-military pressure on China in a bid to further break down state
capitalism in China and allow further expansion of the China market for
US goods. In its NSS, the US self-righteously declares it “reject(s)
the inevitability of confrontation” with China, but at the same time
asserts it will “manage competion (with China) from a position of
strength” which is nothing but a byword for expanding US military
presence.

The US and Chinese imperialists and their giant militaries are no
more than bullies seeking to outdo the other in establishing a foothold
inside Philippine sovereign territory.On the other hand, while engaging in saber-rattling, the imperialist
powers of the US and China are united in exploiting and oppressing the
proletariat and peoples of the world. The finance oligarchs and monopoly
capitalists in the US and China mutually benefit from the neo-colonial
drive to completely open-up the economies of the Philippines and other
backward, agrarian and non-industrial countries.

In the face of such inter-imperialist rivalries and collusion, the
Filipino people must stand firmly for patriotism and national freedom
and oppose heightening Chinese and US militray presence within
Philippine territory.

The Filipino people must defend Philippine sovereignty and demand the
immediate pull-out of Chinese and US military forces in the Philippine
EEZ and territorial waters. They must demand the immediate pull-out of
American troops stationed in various military camps and training
grounds. They must demand the immediate abrogation of the EDCA, the
Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) and the Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT). It
is but fitting for the Filipino people to mark next year the 25th
anniversary of the historic rejection by the Philippine Senate of the
Military Bases Agreement in September 17, 1991.

The Filipino people must struggle to put an end to the neo-colonial
puppet state currently headed by top American stooge Benigno Aquino III.
By perpetuating the semi-colonial and semifeudal system in the
Philippines, the puppet rulers in the Philippines have neither
modernized the economy nor built the capability to defend its borders
and national territory.

The ruling neo-colonial state has subordinated Philippine foreign
policy to US geo-political interests, relegated the Philippine economy
to perpetual foreign dependence, backwardness and crisis and caused the
Filipino masses to suffer from widespread poverty, oppression and
exploitation.

The Filipino people must reject the war-mongering and prospective
armed conflicts between the US and China military forces within the
Philippines and its territorial waters. In such eventuality, the task of
the Filipino people and its revolutionary forces is to further
intensify the people’s war for national and social liberation.

Condemn the US and China for building up its military forces in Philippine territorial waters in the South China Sea!

Condemn Aquino’s puppetry to US imperialism!

Struggle for national and social liberation! Advance the people’s war!

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